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The “Detailed Mics” are a class of five historic microphones that have a few special qualities. The first being that they all have external power supplies instead of phantom power. This greatly increased the headroom because the boxes are not using phantom power which is limited to 48 volts. This is in part because phantom…

If you are like me and have your iPhone tethered to your car you will have noticed that iTunes likes to play the first song in your library when it forgets what you were doing last. Additionally the next few songs tend to be the same as well. While I don’t know why they haven’t…

This one is more going out to prospective audio engineers. Much of us need a day job while getting started and are likely transitioning from a steady job after acquiring enough equipment-that-works to do the job and people interested in you doing said job. I wasn’t so lucky. I didn’t get a degree in this…

Hello! It’s been rather cold that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of time for sound! I won’t recap but some highlights have been tracking with Adam Jackson for another KGFREEZE album that is not released yet, Darling Disaster, Some soon-to-be-released tracks from Jesse Cinque and a metric ton of work for my father’s show on Public Radio…

Here it is, the Telefunken ELA M 251 The capsule is original to the mic and the sound blows me away! It instantly became my go-to instrument mic because I feel like it gets me where I want to be without using plug-ins roughly half the time and is detailed and full-bandwidth. It has rounded…

I got an original Telefunken-branded U47. It’s got all of the trappings I wanted, the more recent capsule but original transformer and VF14 vacuum tube. It was Frank Sinatra’s favorite mic, he would sometimes refuse to use anything else. I’ve been told he called it “My Tele”. It was also a favorite of George Martin…